Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 124-136 (BELFAST EVENING TELEGRAPH)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: SEAVER, HENRY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 124-136 (BELFAST EVENING TELEGRAPH)
Date: 1886
Nature: New office & printing works at junction of Royal Ave & Little Donegall St; 'acknowledge to have the most im;osing exterior of any newspaper office in Ireland'. Style 'a free treatment of the Classic period'. Dumfries red sandstone used for principal elevations, red perforated brick for others. Contractor: H. & J. Martin, Ormeau Works, Belfast.
Refs: Architect 34, 9 Jul 1886, 28; IB 28, 1 Jul 1886, 199-200; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 289-90

Name: SEAVER, HENRY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 124-136 (BELFAST EVENING TELEGRAPH)
Date: 1907
Nature: New 5 storey ferro-concrete extension on Hennebique system on site formerly occupied by J. & R. O'Kane in Library St by McLaughlin & Harvey for W. & G. Baird. Under construction in Dec 1907.
Refs: IB 49, 4 May,15 Jun, 28 Dec 1907, 324,425,893

Name: SEAVER, HENRY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 124-136 (BELFAST EVENING TELEGRAPH)
Date: 1911
Nature: Tender of James Hogg & Sons, Ormeau Rd, accepted for new premises (i.e. extension) in Library & Union Sts.
Refs: IB 53, 19 Aug 1911, 562

Name: SEAVER, HENRY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 124-136 (BELFAST EVENING TELEGRAPH)
Date: 1926
Nature: Addition in Little Donegall St, for W. & G. Baird. Plans approved by City Surveyor.
Refs: IB 68, 9 Jan 1926, 21